July 13, 2014
By: Ayo Douglas
"Omne Trium Perfectum" (everything that comes in threes is perfect, or every set of three is complete) What’s so special about the number three? Well, Schoolhouse Rock! tells us that three is a magical number! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aU4pyiB-kq0&feature=kp The “Rule of Three” is...
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By: Becky Li
I can definitely say that after six weeks, I have a better feel of what research is all about. What I love about it is the independence and freedom to create your own methods. And I was actually able to...
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By: Erin Brooks
Full disclosure: no matter how hard you try, no matter how careful you are, things can, and most certainly will go wrong. I say this from first-hand experience. Allow me to explain. As I described in my previous post, I...
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By: Alexander Merriman
Hello everyone! This week's assignment is to discuss the joys and woes of scientific research and how our projects are coming along. In the beginning it was rather difficult to get the Whole-mount in situ protocol working, forcing us to...
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July 12, 2014
By: Nina Sun
If I have learned anything in the last six weeks, I have learned how short six weeks is (and eight weeks for that matter). I feel like I have learned so much, but also like I don't have much to...
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July 11, 2014
By: Dani Smith
After six weeks in the Patek lab, I feel at home in the basement of the Biological Sciences building. In addition to feeling comfortable with my lab colleagues, I have also gotten to know the other researchers located nearby. I...
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By: Aitana Zermeno
Now that I am 6 weeks into my research and do not yet have conclusive results, I understand what Dr. Grunwald meant when we said at the start of the program that we should not be expecting to finish a...
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By: Miranda Allen
Right. So results. That ultimate goal. What everyone wants to read on our poster when the time comes. That shiny research trinket that a researcher can use to convince others that their hard work was worthwhile (and worth the money)....
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July 9, 2014
By: Alexander Merriman
Hello Everyone! We are officially more than half way through the Howard Hughes Research Fellowship. Time if flying by and results are starting to add up in the lab. I will have a finished poster soon enough; however, this past...
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By: Daniel Lam
The chalk talks are really interesting and enriching as a whole as we got to listen to each other's work and the reasons behind the works. It is very enthralling to hear about fin regeneration in zebrafish or modularities in...
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July 8, 2014
By: Michael Ortuño
After listening to all of my peers' chalk talks, I have to admit that I'm a bit overwhelmed. We have fellows doing research on diverse topics such as the eye, nanoparticles, mantis shrimp and how we learn music. It was certainly...
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July 6, 2014
By: Wilson Brace
Over the last week we've been presenting our research to each other in the form of chalk talks. I found Matt Alston’s particularly interesting - he’s doing work on pain mapping in Warren Grill’s neuroengineering lab. Matt is developing a...
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By: Vanessa Wu
As someone who becomes particularly nervous and faint-hearted at the idea of public speaking, the chalk talks last week seemed like a daunting task. Nevertheless, my talk came and passed, and I was blown away by the variety of topics...
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By: Alcida Karz
My roommate Vanessa and I are working in the same department: Pharmacology and Cancer Biology. It's nice to know that I have at least one person to complain to about Westerns that can actually empathize. She's studying the actions of...
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By: Jo Zhu
Always wondering about the fun stuff going on in the labs everyone is working in, after this week’s chalk talk, I found that the reality is SO much better! Four weeks ago, we stepped into our ‘arena’ having no clue...
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By: Matt Alston
One chalk talk that really intrigued me was Wilson Brace's, on the neuroscience of motor learning. In his lab he is studying how people learn music, and to do so they have developed a cool and unique method of analyzing...
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By: Miranda Allen
Alcida’s chalk talk on her project, having to do with the study of signaling pathways in the formation cancer stem cells, was extremely interesting to me. Cancer Stem Cells are something that I haven’t heard of before, and I do...
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By: Levi Edouna
My time at Duke, and especially my time as a research, has led to a alteration in the way I perceive definitions. I've been so accustomed to resorting to a Merriam Websters website or Wikipedia when ignorant of topic, idea,...
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